Pipeline property tax payments ‘are the reason that some of our school districts exist,’ says Minnesota Sen. David Tomassoni

“My experience with Enbridge has always been positive—and they actually are the reason that some of our school districts exist,” says Minnesota Sen. David Tomassoni, who’s represented District 6, in the northeastern portion of the state, since 2001.

Sen. Tomassoni testified in support of Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 Replacement Project during recent Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) hearings, noting that the property tax money Enbridge pays for its Mainline pipeline network in northern Minnesota “helps schools fund their very operation.

“Without that money, those small rural schools—such as Floodwood, Minnesota, for example, population 500—without those pipelines and the property taxes they pay, and the economic impact that they generate, the Floodwood School District would probably not exist,” says Sen. Tomassoni, “and (children) would most likely have to go to school up to 45 minutes to an hour away.”

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